difficult
/ˈdɪfɪk(ə)lt/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈdɪfɪk(ə)lt/
difficult
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dif - fi - cult -> difficult
Myanmar meaning
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၁။ (က) ~ (to do sth ) ခက်သော။ မလွယ်သော။ ခဲယဉ်းသော။
a difficult problem/language/translation ❍ She finds it difficult to stop smoking. ❍ This mountain is difficult to climb/It is difficult to climb this mountain.
(ခ) ပြဿနာရှိသော။ အကျပ်တွေ့သော။ ခဲယဉ်းစေသော။
Their refusal puts us in a difficult position. ❍ They made it difficult for me to see her. ❍ Thirteen is a difficult age (ie Children have problems then).
၂။ ထိန်းသိမ်းရခက်သော။ ဆက်ဆံရခက်သော။ ကြေးများ သော။ ကြေးထူသော။
a difficult child/customer/boss ❍ Don't take any notice of her–she's just being difficult.
More examples
- Choosing the winner was a difficult task.
- The exam questions were too difficult.
- [it is difficult to do something] : It’s difficult to say what time I will get home.
- Her behaviour became increasingly difficult to understand.
- [difficult for] : Talking to teenagers can be difficult for parents.
- [find something difficult (to do)] : Ella finds the children very difficult to cope with.
- [make it difficult to do something] : Her age made it difficult to get another job.
- She had a difficult childhood.
- Helping people who are in difficult circumstances
- Martin was a difficult baby.
- Evenings are difficult – how about the morning?
Synonyms
hard, tricky, not easy, easier said than done, complicated, thorny, complex, intricate, abstract, abstruse, ambitious, arduous, argumentative, awkward, backbreaker, baffling, bearish, bewildering, boorish, bothersome, burdensome, challenging, confounding, confusing, crucial, dark, deep, delicate, demanding, difficile, effortful, enigmatic, enigmatical, entangled, esoteric, exacting, fastidious, finicky, formidable, fractious, fussy, galling, gargantuan, grim, grueling, hard to explain, hard to please, hard to solve, hard-won, heavy, herculean, hidden, immense, impenetrable, impolite, incomprehensible, inexplicable, intractable, involved, irritable, irritating, knotty, labored, laborious, labyrinthine, loose, meandering, mysterious, mystical, mystifying, nice, no picnic, oafish, obscure, obstinate, obstreperous, onerous, operose, painful, paradoxical, perplexing, perverse, picky, problem, problematic, problematical, profound, prohibitive, puzzling, rambling, recalcitrant, refractory, rigid, rude, severe, stiff, strenuous, stubborn, subtle, tangled, testing, ticklish, tiresome, tiring, titanic, toilsome, tough, troublesome, trying, unaccommodating, unamenable, unclear, unfathomable, unintelligible, unmanageable, unmanageable socially, unyielding, uphill, upstream, vexing, wearisome
Antonyms
amenable, calm, clear, easy, effortless, facile, free, friendly, helpful, manageable, nice, plain, simple, sociable, straightforward, trivial, uncomplicated
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